HI guys,
Currently I met a tough question. I want to use a 4L aluminum cylinder to fill 200L xenon gas. But I want to know how to calculate the inside cylinder pressure of the xenon gas at 273K and 288K.
xenon gas is a high liquefied gas, and its compressibility factor varies significantly when pressure and temperature changes.

Please help me figure out this, thanks in advance.

Brian_UK

19-09-2012, 10:24 PM

Are you trying to get 200l into a 4l container???
Is it going to be gas, liquid or solid?

Thank you for your kind help. I want to fill 200 litre xenon gas into 4 litre cylinder.
The xenon gas is gonna be gas and liquid in the cylinder. The xenon gas is a high pressure liquefied gas, which differs from the permanent gas as the latter one is stable in the cylinder. For instance, helium gas, I will get 150 bar if I fill 6 cubic meter into 40 litre cylinder according to the Ideal Gas Law. But it seems to be difficult for me to calculate the pressure once it's a high pressure liquefied gas.

Are you trying to get 200l into a 4l container???
Is it going to be gas, liquid or solid?

if you mistakingly fill cylinder on top with liquid xenon at +10 degree (density 1677 gram/liter), seal it, and later time, heating up cylinder to 60 degree C (stored inside VAN in hot sun for example) - you have pressure inside cylinder about 17.6 MPa (175 bar above atmospheric pressure)